Search Details

Word: semis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Angela talked also of a wealthy North Shore businessman who would pay her $200 every Thursday afternoon for the privilege of cleaning her apartment. She said it was "like babysitting." He would be semi-nude-clad only in a short apron-and she was expected to order him around, occasionally beat him, and "generally just play the dominant role...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: Coffee With 'A Lady of the Evening' | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...McGill had been overextended and Harvard, brought to life by the Redmen's rally, put the game away eight minutes later on Cavanagh's second goal. Rosenberger added the seventh with 28 seconds remaining in the game, and Harvard had a 7-4 triumph and a berth in the semi-finals with the Toronto Blues, the defending Canadian college champions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Win Three Games; DeMichele, Mark Injured | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...Henri Perrin, 27 year-old semi-successful rive gauche painter, draws in chalk on the sidewalk of the Boulevard Saint Michel that he will fast until all the killing is stopped...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The FutureTea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...admit some journalists if they promise not to reveal that Marcello Caetano is now Premier. On several occasions, Rear Admiral Américo de Deus Rodrigues Thomaz, Portugal's figurehead President since 1958, has tried to break the news gently to Salazar, who at 80 is lucid but semi-paralyzed. Each time, Dona Maria recently told a friend, Thomaz approached the old Premier's Lisbon quarters "with the firm intention of telling the truth. But he can't find the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: State Secret | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...five murders and three others as well. If they are correct, the alleged murderers were even stranger and more bizarre than their crimes. The police case was based on the tale of an accused murderer, Susan Denise Atkins, 21. She sketched out a weird story of a mystical, semi-religious hippie drug-and-murder cult led by a bearded, demonic Mahdi able to dispatch his zombie-like followers, mostly girls wearing hunting knives, to commit at least eight murders and, police say, possibly four others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE DEMON OF DEATH VALLEY | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

First | Previous | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | 553 | 554 | 555 | 556 | 557 | 558 | 559 | 560 | 561 | Next | Last